At 08:03 17/06/2002 -0400, you wrote: >The ME is a great camera but has one problem. There is a bit of spring steel >that is used to hold the winder lever out at a 30 degree standoff from the >camera. After 3-4 years of use, mine broke off - jamming and tearing up the >winder gears. The repair was expensive. > >Regards, Bob S. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ><< I was just putting a film in my Pentax ME when something went wrong: it > will not wind on, and I cannot fire the shutter to free the winder.
I think this is probably what has happened. I have tried taking the bottom plate off: >If you take the three bottom screws out, look at where the wind lever >shaft (motor drive coupler) >is - there are a few levers above the coupler (closest to the front face >of the camera). Take a >thin blade and ease these levers toward the front as you wind the camera >again - this should serve to get your mirror assembly armed and the camera >should then fire. but I could not get any of the levers to move. Presumably I now need to take the top plate off to get at the standoff spring. Does this come off easily? Roger Moss - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
